In the spacious and bright hall, ice vapor surrounds the golden beams, which also relieves the summer heat. Therefore, Zhu Yijun was not so agitated and just waited quietly for Shen Shixing to answer his question.
Shen Shixing, who was standing on one side of the beam, bowed his hands directly after Zhu Yijun asked this question. He looked happy and said with a smile: "This is what I said to your majesty, but I didn't expect that your majesty has already done this." Enlightenment.”
"Then why didn't master mention it to me?" Zhu Yijun asked. Shen Shixing then replied: "Meat-eaters are despicable and fail to make far-sighted plans. How can you make your father-in-law follow his short-sightedness?"
"How can there be any reason for a minister to ask the court to be unfavorable to the people out of selfish desires? How can he have the virtue to advise the emperor and his father to follow the example of Yao and Shun?"
"If the country wants to be governed by virtue, everyone must abstain from sexual desires. Just because you can't be a master, you don't have to treat the common people like grass and grass. How is this different from animals?"
"Therefore, I don't think it's appropriate for me to mention this matter."
"Master, that's a good scold!" Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
"Obviously, we can preach like this, and we must respect virtue and benevolence in terms of etiquette and law, but when it comes to governing the country, we still have to be practical."
"Master doesn't mention it, but it doesn't mean that this desire to be a master can be curbed and disappear. There are very few people who can truly abstain from sexual desires! At least there are very few people who are completely abstinent from sexual desires."
"How many people in the world can be as strong as the sea?" Zhu Yijun asked after saying this.
"Your Majesty said so!"
"Now is the time to consider these things. We cannot really believe that the rentiers in the world can really abstain from sexual pleasures and observe etiquette and morality. Your Majesty should not really regard them as gentlemen, but treat them as villains, and even treat them as villains. We must follow the villain's desires, otherwise the New Deal will become a castle in the air." Shen Shixing replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "So, it seems that we can only suffer from the foreigners and treat the foreigners as their slaves;"
"But this way, we should kill less and tame more."
"I have clearly ordered the governor not to slaughter the barbarians, but to herd the barbarians as the main ones!" Shen Shixing replied at this time.
"That's good!" Zhu Yijun nodded and continued: "In addition, the foreign barbarian nobles should be severely punished for their immoral and shameless crimes. The barbarian people are their slaves. Now we have to destroy them and make the barbarian people our slaves." Servant of the Han people.”
"What your Majesty is saying is that according to the reports from foreign ministers of civil and military affairs, being a servant of the Han people in my country can lead a better life than being a servant of the foreign nobles, so this is completely popular!"
"It can also be seen that the new ritual will be deeply rooted in people's hearts, but it will still take time and everyone inside and outside will gradually understand it." Shen Shixing replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said with a serious face: "Although governing a country needs to be practical, one cannot ignore one's selfish desires, especially the desire to be rich and happy without harming others. However, the new etiquette advocates abstinence and few desires. Instead of completely following his desires!”
"Virtue should still be respected, and saints and gentlemen should still be loved and respected!"
"Otherwise, if their selfish desires are allowed to spread, I really don't know what kind of evil will happen. If you dare to commit incest today, will you be able to enslave your children tomorrow?"
"Wang Hua did not expand purely to satisfy the desires of beasts, but to unify civilization, and then rescue the barbarians, make them know etiquette and virtue, and then truly realize the unification of etiquette in the world, and the orderly growth of the people."
"My emperor should be the hero of the universe!" Shen Shixing bowed directly and kowtowed to the ground. Zhu Yijun stood up at this time and said: "So, these sanctimonious people who have been accused of a lot of crimes should be punished according to the law!"
"In addition, these sins must be compiled into a canon by the Hanlin officials and made public! In this way, a great reflection on the old rites must be launched. In particular, the scholar-bureaucrats who very much adhere to the old rites and advocate the old rites must be carefully analyzed. , let’s ask those people in the world who still revere the old rites, are they so sanctimonious? Ask them, are they trying to be accomplices of the unkind and unjust, or are they trying to make the world hypocrites, or are they even willing to pay back the old rites? Do you use etiquette to cover up these sins?" Zhu Yijun said and looked at Shen Shixing and continued: "Then we will start a big discussion, master, you will personally preside over it. If the scholar-bureaucrats who uphold the old etiquette cannot abide by the old etiquette, then do they need to give advice? "My father, Yan Jun, keeps these old rituals. Should I and future generations of kings really only use the new rituals as the way to uprightly uphold themselves?"
"At the same time, let's discuss again, if the scholar-bureaucrats who adhere to the old etiquette cannot completely eliminate their evils, is it really appropriate for only the gentry to self-govern the local areas, and the imperial government should not go to the local areas? The feudal autonomy of the gentry and subordinates below the county level and the system of counties and counties Should we re-discuss the disadvantage of emphasizing the top and despising the bottom?" Shen Shixing said yes.
"How can it be compiled into a canon! In this case, wouldn't Mr. Lu and others be infamy for thousands of years?!" When Zhu Yijun ordered that the crimes of the accused scholar-bureaucrats be compiled into a canon for the world to know, Xiao Yin could not accept it at all for a while, and He asked excitedly about Yang Yingkui, Zhang Jing and others.
Yang Yingkui sneered and said: "This is to further prove that the old etiquette is out of date, so that people in the world will be more willing to respect the new etiquette in order not to lose the reputation of a gentleman due to minor mistakes. The status of Cheng and Zhu Zhi's studies in official studies will be even more endangered. Maybe in the future, not only Zhu and Wang will pay equal attention to it, but Wang and Zhang will pay equal attention to it, and Cheng and Zhu’s studies will be completely abandoned, thinking that they will give way to the implementation of new rites!”
"hateful!"
"First, Wang Chen and other modern Confucian scholars were brought into the Confucius Temple, and now they use the secret information to compile a canon of the evil deeds of the scholar-bureaucrats without covering it up. They practice the three taboos. Their intentions must not be ignored. The key is that if this continues, we will basically respect the If the emperor and his father cannot conceal their faults, how can the imperial power be supreme?" Zhang Jing, as a eunuch who was born in the Neishu Hall, was naturally able to speak out his truth at this time.
After hearing this, Yang Yingkui couldn't help but burst into laughter: "So I say this must be the traitor party in the DPRK who is threatening the emperor and disrupting the government! Otherwise, how can the emperor destroy his foundation?"
"But in fact, this is not enough to affect the foundation of the imperial power. After all, even the saints said that if the king treats his ministers like grass, then the ministers will treat the king like bandits. Moreover, since ancient times, there have been people who dared to bring down the emperor. So what this does does not affect the imperial power. But it is difficult for us scholars to be more noble than the common people because of the old etiquette! If this continues, not only will the officials and gentry pay the same amount of food as the servants, but the rich and powerful officials and gentry will also have to pay more food and more silver, which is called The world is unified." Xiao Yin started talking at this time.
"How can this be done!"
"Don't you guys have any countermeasures?" Zhang Jing said suddenly and asked about Yang Yingkui and others.
Yang Yingkui said: "That's not true. In the final analysis, everything still depends on the word profit. We scholar-bureaucrats need to pay for food and money, but Buddhists, Buddhists, monks and Taoists can always do without food and money. Monks can save all sentient beings, and the emperor can't help but treat them favorably, right?" What’s more, the current Queen Mother worships Buddhism!”
"That makes sense." Zhang Jing said. Yang Yingkui said: "I have sent people to Beijing to contact the powerful people, and I plan to use the Queen Mother to facilitate this matter, so that the temples and fields in the world will be completely tax-free and free of labor. In this way, we can donate the fields to the temples, and then become rich by worshiping the Buddha, and we will leave Confucianism and become a Buddhist! "
"That's all."
"I have asked for a certificate to stay at home and built a family temple." Xiao Yin replied with a sigh. Zhang Jing said nothing.
